Dilara Elbir: Best Films of 2018, as published by Much Ado About Cinema
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- The Favourite — Yorgos Lanthimos
- First Reformed — Paul Schrader
- If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
- Cold War — Pawel Pawlikowski
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Desiree Akhavan
- Happy as Lazzaro — Alice Rohrwacher
- Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
- The Bookshop — Isabel Coixet
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Marielle Heller
- Paddington 2 — Paul King
- Leave No Trace — Debra Granik
- Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Unsane — Steven Soderbergh
- Let the Corpses Tan — Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
- Wildlife — Paul Dano
- The Death of Stalin — Armando Iannucci
- Support the Girls — Andrew Bujalski
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties — John Cameron Mitchell
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout — Christopher McQuarrie